“those whose hearts are to be reconciled”

[Surah al-Tawba: 60]

and His saying:

“And He united their hearts. Had you spent all that is on earth, you could not have united their hearts, but Allah united them. Indeed, He is Almighty, All-Wise.”

[Surah al-Anfāl: 63]

And His saying:

“when you were enemies, then He united your hearts, and by His grace you became brothers.”

[Surah Āl Imrān: 103]

People use “composed” and “composite” in various technical senses, just as grammarians have their own technical usage. They may mean by this a complete sentence; they may mean by it (1) a compound formed by fusion, such as Baalbek; and they may mean an annexed expression and anything resembling it—namely, what takes the accusative case in the vocative.

Logicians and similar scholastic theologians have other technical usages. By it they mean an expression whose constituent part denotes part of its meaning. This includes an annexed expression when the annexation itself is intended rather than its use as a proper name; so (2) Baalbek and similar names are not included.

Some of them treat “composed” and “composite” as equivalent, while others distinguish between them. All of this concerns composition in expressions.

As for composition in concrete entities, when these thinkers say that “[indeed]” (3) a body is that which is composed and composite, they do not mean (4) something that was separate and then brought together, nor something capable of being separated. Rather, they mean something in which one side is distinct from another, such as the sun, the moon, and other bodies.

As for the philosophers, “composed” and “composite” have a broader meaning in their terminology (5) than this; they include